Want to tweak my system? (paying gig)

Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.bell at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 17:52:09 CDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Greg Brooks <gregb at west-third.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I posted many weeks back about a server I've got that's incorrectly
>  reporting available space. I'll spare everyone the rehash except to say: I'd
>  like it fixed, and I'd like to pay one of you smart folks to do it.

Have you rebooted the machine recently?  You may have a file handle
open to a file that's been deleted.  This space will be reported as
used until the all open file descriptors (to that file) are closed and
the kernel is able to mark that portion of the filesystem as clean.

-- 
Chris


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